Archive for 'July,2011'
Durable solutions for DPs
Muhamed was displaced during the war and due to legal and bureaucratic reasons he has now no property to return to. His family’s predicament is repeated throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, where people who were displaced but [...]
Electrification (Returnee Community)
A lack of infrastructure in rural areas, including roads and electrification, can be a major obstacle to sustainable return. Funding allocations infrastructural projects, such as electrification, should be based on needs and vulnerability rather than on [...]
Administrative Gaps
In the village of Cavas, Ravno municipality, live Velimir Mijatovic and his wife. They are returrnees. Their partially destroyed house has no electricity or running water and they survive on what they can grow in their [...]
A new home on memory lane in Bosnia and Herzegovina
GORAZDE, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 14 (UNHCR) – Biserka Vukasinovic has a strong homing instinct, honed from her experience as a refugee twice over, a returnee and an internally displaced person. Every time she lost her [...]
Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited BiH again
UN refugee agency Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has been in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 21 August, meeting the country’s Presidency and discussing a number of issues, including the plight of the country’s displaced people during a [...]
Posjete kolektivnim centrima u BiH
Predstavnici UNHCR-a, supruge ambasadora i šefovi drugih međunarodnih agencija posjetili su danas neke od najugroženijih izbjeglica, povratnika i interno raseljenih osoba u Bosni i Hercegovini kako bi se upoznali sa osnovnim socijalno-ekonomskim problemima sa kojima se [...]
Roma asylum seekers from Kosovo should be naturalized
Muqishta Nuqi is a 35-year-old asylum seeker whose request for refugee status was recently rejected by the Ministry of Security in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This has left him at risk of forcible deportation. Mr. Nuqi is [...]
UNHCR Marks 60th Anniversary of Refugee Convention
UNHCR marks the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Refugee Convention as forced displacement becomes increasingly complex and as developing countries struggle to host the large majority of the world’s refugees. Today, the Convention remains the cornerstone of [...]
Nansen Refugee Award
Formerly known as the Nansen Medal, this award is named after the late Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, the first League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Instituted in [...]
World Scout Jamboree
If you’re looking at this special landing page, you’ll hopefully want to Do 1 Thing to help refugees forced to flee because of war or persecution. You will be able to go back home when the [...]
